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I confirm a man git will directly get you man (1) git.
It content differs from the git README which just lost the snarky “stupid content tracker” (said README is now a markdown-enabled README.md!)

README.md: don’t call git stupid in the title

“the stupid content tracker” was true in the early days of Git, but hardly applicable these days.
“fast, scalable, distributed” describes Git more accurately.

Also, “stupid” can be seen as offensive by some people. Let’s not use it
in the very first words of the README.

The man page should soon follow suit.

You can build the man pages from the source package with make man && make install-man. Manual pages are not built by default, see git’s INSTALL file:

To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
inclined to install the tools, the default build target
(“make all”) does not build them.

Do what they (other answer-ers) said, and if you still have the same problem (or anyone else does) make sure you don’t have the MANSECT environment variable set, which would cause this problem to happen too. It’s a colon-separated list of sections to check, in descending order (first section tried is at the beginning of the list, last one is at the end). If I MANSECT=3, I can duplicate your problem however depending on how experienced of a user you are, it might seem like an obvious thing. Last but not least, make that sure no aliases, functions (bash) or scripts that intercept the ‘man’ command, are set (because man –section will explicitly tell man which section to search, in the same format as MANSECT) for man, since –Section overrides the MANSECT variable. While your at it check the MANOPT variable for any ‘–section 3’ or ‘-s3’ flags (but you would have probably noticed that by now since it would break many queries). Make sure also that MANPATH is exported, it doesn’t do any good if it is just locally declared (same with the other variables). Lastly if all else fails you can manually install the pages yourself, which isn’t too hard unless you are severely restricted on what you are allowed to do to the system you are using (a place I used to work for had a rule that nobody was allowed to change ANY defaults even if they had access to do so, due to inexperienced people making bad changes). Another thing to watch out for is symbolic links (ie, /etc/alternatives), which now and again, become unlinked however man usually warns you about this.